Illinois Number Theory Seminar : Fall 2012

Schedule of talks

Date

Speaker

Title

Tues, Aug. 28

Zhi-Wei Sun (Nanjing University)

Various new observations about prime numbers

Thur, Sept. 6

Bruce Berndt (UIUC)

Unpublished Manuscripts Published with Ramanujan's Lost Notebook

Thur, Sept. 13

Dermot McCarthy (Texas A&M)

Hypergeometric Functions over Finite Fields and Modular Forms

Thur, Sept. 20

Harold Diamond (UIUC)

Chebyshev bounds for Beurling generalized numbers

Thur, Sept. 27

Armin Straub (UIUC)

Arithmetic aspects of short random walks

Thur, Oct. 4

Kenneth Stolarsky (UIUC)

Distribution mod 1: three points of view

Thur, Oct. 11

Amanda Folsom (Yale)

q-series and quantum modular forms

Tues, Oct 16

Bruce Berndt (UIUC)

The circle problem, the divisor problem, and 109 years of Bessel
series expansions

Thur, Oct. 18

Michael Filaseta (Univ. of South Carolina)

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Thur, Nov. 8

Kevin Ford (UIUC)

Sets of primes p such that q dividing p-1 implies q is in the set

Tues, Nov. 13

David Zywina (Institute For Advanced Study)

Elliptic surfaces and the Inverse Galois Problem

Thur, Nov. 15

Jeffrey Vaaler (Univ. Texas Austin)

Bounds for small generators of number fields

Tues, Nov 27

Sun Kim (Ohio State)

Partitions with parity and part difference conditions, and Bressoud's
conjecture.

Thur, Nov. 29

Maria Sabitova (CUNY Queens college)

On ranks of Abelian varieties

Tues, Dec 4

David Helm (Univ. Texas Austin)

The integral Bernstein center and the local Langlands correspondence for GL_n in families

Thur, Dec. 6

Shaoshi Chen (North Carolina State)

On the Summability of Bivariate Rational Functions